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and lighted at a candle flame, will burn without the 

 least odour for four or five minutes, giving a light 

 equal to two or three candles. From the flower of 

 the tree, I am told, is distilled a delightful scent. 



Your Society have, I hear, offered a sum of 

 rupees for the best treatise on Indian Agriculture.* 

 To write an Agricultural history of the crops 

 within the limits of this Presidency, would be a 

 gigantic undertaking, and scarcely within the 

 power of any individual's leisure and personal 

 knowledge to accomplish. Each district has fre- 

 quently crops more peculiarly its own, whilst the 

 process of culture and time of sowing in any two 

 Zillahs, may differ considerably, even for the same 

 description of crop ; but were the MofFussil Mem- 

 bers of your Society, or any others so inclined, 

 they might each furnish an article on the culture of 

 one or two kinds of produce grown in their respec- 

 tive districts. In this way the object could be 

 easily and speedily obtained ; every Zillah thus 

 possessing a separate record of its own, the whole 

 might form an Encyelopoedia of the Bengal presi- 

 dency's Agriculture. 



(signed) T. A. DKAUMAX. 



* Prizes arc no longer offered by the Agricultural and Horticultural 

 Society of India for treatises on Indian Agriculture. II. II. S. 



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